William Le Queux
Rasputin the Rascal Monk
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Table of contents
Preface.
Chapter One.
Chapter Two.
Chapter Three.
Chapter Four.
Chapter Five.
Chapter Six.
Chapter Seven.
Chapter Eight.
Chapter Nine.
Chapter Ten.
Chapter Eleven.
Chapter Twelve.
Preface.
Why
this Book is Written.In
the following pages I have attempted to take the reader behind the
veil of the Imperial Russian Court, and to disclose certain facts
which, in this twentieth century, may appear almost incredible.As
one who knows Russia, who has traversed the Empire from Virballen to
the Pacific coast, and who has met personally both the ex-Emperor and
his consort, as well as many of the persons herein mentioned, I
confess that I myself have often been astounded when examining the
mass of documents which this dirty Siberian peasant—the convicted
horse-stealer who rose to be the secret adviser of Nicholas II—had
happily secreted in the safe in his cellar in the Gorokhovaya, in
Petrograd, so that the real truth of his traitorous dealings with the
Kaiser might be chronicled in history.I
had hoped to be able to reproduce many of the cipher telegrams and
letters in facsimile, but the present shortage of paper has precluded
this, and it could only be done if this book were issued in expensive
form.To
me, it seems best that the British public should have access to it in
a cheap and popular form, and hence I have abandoned the idea of
facsimiles.I
here publish the story of the mock-monk’s amazing career as a
further contribution to the literature upon Germany’s spy system
and propaganda so cleverly established as an insidious adjunct to her
military attack upon the civilisation of our times.The
conversations herein recorded have been disclosed by patriotic
Russians, the truth has been winnowed out of masses of mere hearsay,
and the cipher telegrams and letters I have copied from the de-coded
originals placed at my disposal by certain Russians, Allies of ours,
who desire, for the present, to remain anonymous.William
Le Queux.
Chapter One.
The
Cult of the “Sister-Disciples.”The
war has revealed many strange personalities in Europe, but surely
none so sinister or so remarkable as that of the mock-monk Gregory
Novikh—the middle-aged, uncleanly charlatan, now happily dead, whom
Russia knew as Rasputin.As
one whose duty it was before the war to travel extensively backwards
and forwards across the face of Europe, in order to make explorations
into the underworld of the politics of those who might be our
friends—or enemies as Fate might decide—I heard much of the
drunken, dissolute scoundrel from Siberia who, beneath the cloak of
religion and asceticism, was attracting a host of silly, neurotic
women because he had invented a variation of the many new religions
known through all the ages from the days of Rameses the Great.On
one occasion, three years before the world-crisis, I found myself at
the obscure little fishing-village called Alexandrovsk, on the Arctic
shore, a grey rock-bound place into which the black chill waves sweep
with great violence and where, for four months in the year, it is
perpetual night. To-day, Alexandrovsk is a port connected with
Petrograd by railway, bad though it be, which passes over the great
marshy tundra, and in consequence has been of greatest importance to
Russia since the war.
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